Lighting in Unity is not governed solely by lights placed in the scene, but also by Global Illumination (GI), which includes light that bounces from one surface onto another. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to configure Global Illumination to get realistic lighting effects for your projects.

URP stands for “Universal Render Pipeline,” which aims to optimize real-time performance on performance-constrained platforms such as mobile devices or low-end consoles and PCs. It does this by making some tradeoffs in the lighting and shading sections of the pipeline. In this tutorial, you will learn to use URP to light scenes.

Light Probes are used to provide high-quality lighting on moving objects in your Scene. Light Probes allow you to have Baked lighting — such as Emissive Materials and Area lights to illuminate moving objects passing through the area. It really helps make Scenes more dynamic and cohesive. In this tutorial, you will learn to place and use light probes.

Realtime lights can be expensive to performance due the calculations that have to be done to determine the valid pixel color when there is a light in range. So, when you have a scene with varying amounts of light that need to be rendered, there are two rendering paths you should consider. In this tutorial, you will learn about the different rendering paths.

It’s important to understand light shapes because the shape determines how a Light affects the area it illuminates. When working with lights, using the right shape can make a noticeable difference in the fidelity of your project. In this tutorial, we will go over the possible shapes of each light and briefly review their attributes.

Introduced in Unity 2018.1, the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) was developed to fulfill the needs of industries that require high-fidelity visuals. Area Lights in the HDRP are rendered in real time and, unlike previous pipelines, there’s no baking required. Area Lights now benefit from the HDRP’s unified lighting, which means there’s no longer a distinction between opaque, transparent, or volumetric Materials. In this tutorial, we will create an Area Light and then set its properties.

When using HDRP for your project, there are recommended practices and settings to help you create more realistic lighting in your projects.

In this tutorial, you will: Explore the creative vision for the Buried Memories: Serekh project Explore the playable demo in the Asset Pack Identify what you think makes the demo a high fidelity experience This tutorial is part of Buried Memories: High Fidelity Game Visuals.

In this tutorial, you will explore the role of Volumetric Fog in creating cinematic visuals for a high fidelity experience. This tutorial is part of Buried Memories: High Fidelity Game Visuals.

All High Definition Rendering Pipeline (HDRP) Light types have an Emission component that defines the emissive behavior of the light. With this component, you can set the color, intensity, range, and whether the light uses a cookie. Most lights share the same properties, except Directional Lights, which don’t have an adjustable range. In this workflow, we’ll go over the Emission component and how each property affects the lights.